"Les démons" is a stunningly tedious little nunsploitation flick from the prolific and generally underwhelming Jess Franco, who made this under a pseudonym for some reason.
The movie is typical for this sort of thing: a woman is burnt at the stake and issues a curse on everybody, then people start suspecting local nuns of being possessed and they are given the Euro-horror torture treatment, ie. tied naked and having their breasts burnt and punctured... in a surprisingly non-violent fashion.
Yes, this is long before "torture porn" became a subgenre, and as such, if you want heavy violence, you'll be disappointed. But the thing is, I think you'll be disappointed anyway. There's basically no plot, just that little set-up and then lots of boring torture and sex scenes. How and why did they ever think this should go for two whole hours?
I will say that one of the women featured - Britt Nichols - is actually very beautiful, but in typical exploitation movie style, the direction doesn't take advantage of this. They think it is enough to just show the actresses naked. They don't know that it's often necessary to shoot and light them in certain ways to accentuate their beauty and make it the focal point.
They probably thought it wasn't necessary, and hey, maybe they were right.
The movie is typical for this sort of thing: a woman is burnt at the stake and issues a curse on everybody, then people start suspecting local nuns of being possessed and they are given the Euro-horror torture treatment, ie. tied naked and having their breasts burnt and punctured... in a surprisingly non-violent fashion.
Yes, this is long before "torture porn" became a subgenre, and as such, if you want heavy violence, you'll be disappointed. But the thing is, I think you'll be disappointed anyway. There's basically no plot, just that little set-up and then lots of boring torture and sex scenes. How and why did they ever think this should go for two whole hours?
I will say that one of the women featured - Britt Nichols - is actually very beautiful, but in typical exploitation movie style, the direction doesn't take advantage of this. They think it is enough to just show the actresses naked. They don't know that it's often necessary to shoot and light them in certain ways to accentuate their beauty and make it the focal point.
They probably thought it wasn't necessary, and hey, maybe they were right.